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From project-based success to sustainable service provision – Insights from BioBoosters

This article explores the premises for integrating a project-based hackathon as a long-term service model in a business support organisation or e.g. an academia-based innovation hub – and what can be learned from the experiences of Jamk University of Applied Science.

Tips for successful thesis process from the student’s and the supervisor’s perspective

A graduating student and a thesis supervisor are looking back at the past thesis process and giving tips for the future students to consider.

Bodensee: Observations on Tourism and Regional Development

What do zeppelins, medieval towns, wine, and cross-border train rides have in common? They all come together at Lake Bodensee – a surprisingly seamless and sustainable tourism destination.

Design Thinking and Regeneration Beyond Borders

An international visit where learning the Design Thinking method became much more than an academic exercise: immersed in a collaborative project with an animal sanctuary, students from three European universities applied innovation tools to solve real-world challenges. The programme offered a rare blend of structured learning and emotional depth, empowering students to co-create meaningful concepts for a good cause.

Crafting innovation with Lidl: Behind the scenes of a hackathon journey

This is a story of an innovation journey. More specially, a story of designing and rapid testing a new innovation process and applying it to support sustainable and responsible business development.

Exploring Digital Rehabilitation: Perspectives of Rwandan Service Users and Professionals.

The findings highlight the need for greater affordability and accessibility across Rwanda’s tiered healthcare system, and the potential of digital rehabilitation. These results underscore the importance of advocating for rehabilitation, digital literacy and skills training, and increasing the number of rehabilitation professionals at all levels of the healthcare system.

Community Health Workers and Service Users’ Experiences of a Community-based Digital Rehabilitation Application

The experiences of both community health workers (CHWs) and service users were positive. CHWs clearly saw the contribution to their communities and doing the suggested exercise programs from the application enabled service users to resume their daily activities. The interviews highlighted opportunities to increase rehabilitation access in primary care using innovative digital solutions. Even small improvements in access to evidence-based services have the potential to have a significant impact when scaled to the wider society.

Uzbekistan’s university staff getting inspired about bioeconomy innovations

Bioeconomy forms the base of the Uzbekistan’s economy in terms of economic growth and employment. Uzbekistan aims to boost its bioeconomy capacities as well as education. While developing bioeconomy master programme the Uzbek university staff also have enhanced their practical bioeconomy knowledge through study visits in Finland and the Baltic countries.

Creating engaging online learning materials for VET

Digital transformation requires teachers to rethink their teaching methods and materials used for learning. We used peer mentoring as a pedagogical tool and explored various digital tools to answer this challenge.

Rehabilitation Professionals’ Attitudes Towards Technology Use and their Perspectives on Rehabilitation Services